1From James Madison to John Armstrong, 26 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
Your account dated 25th December last, which has not been examined at the Treasury for want of the vouchers, containing a charge for Office furniture, it is necessary to apprize you that such an allowance has never been made and cannot therefore at the Treasury, be admitted. The Commissioners under the Louisiana Convention have deposited with Mr Skipwith the papers, furniture and utensils of...
2From James Madison to George Johnston, 26 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter respecting the capture of the Ship Commerce. Having already written to the Governor of Cuba on the subject of the irregular Cruizers, which sally from the ports of that Island to interrupt our Commerce, and received his answer, it is less necessary to repeat the remarks I then made. The President having been pleased to appoint Mr. Henry Hill Jr., who is understood...
3From James Madison to James Monroe, 26 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
It appears that George Utz, for information respecting whom the Prussian Minister addressed himself to you, died at Philadelphia in the year 1793, leaving property to the amount of £400, which is in safe hands. No legal representative had claimed it in July last, from the administrator. During the hostilities at sea which grew out of the state of things between France and the United States in...